Mini Project: The Mighty Boosh

Multicast streaming system

A simple kamaelia based system to multicast stream programmes. Aiming to stream carousel(s) to clients containing 1/2 hour programme episodes (pre-recorded, pre-compressed to files)

System consisting of:

• playout system
• client 'tuner' application

Target schedule

Highly aggressive schedule to see what can be done in a short space of time. Expected to actually take a little longer.

• Mon 11th July 2005 - Project start
• Wed 13th July 2005 - code written
• Mon 18th July 2005 - testing begins

Achieved Schedule

Multicast Carousel work completed:

• Friday 15th July 2005

Basic client side tuner interface completed:

• Friday 15th July 2005

Simple Reliable Multicast Protocol completed:

• Tues 19th July 2005

Server pipeline:

CRON (MH) Done

• system cron, eventually to be a 'component' cron, probably a combination of both for a while
• determine shape of text file 'scripts' for component cron

DATA SOURCE (MH) Done

• improved file reader. sequence of files to read coming from a new CHOOSER component, separate out bitrate limiting

SERVER (MS) Done

Implementation of more robust Simple Reliable Multicast protocol.

Took longer than anticipated due to boundary conditions in the sending side.

Provide factory interface for MH to do testing (wasn't necessary/needed)

• Bypassed - MH used an basic alternative.

INTEGRATION

• In progress

Client pipeline

Implementation of more robust Simple Reliable Multicast protocol.

• Took longer than anticipated due to boundary conditions in the sending side.

HTTP Server (MS)

Over optimistic for such a short time frame. Currently reviewing approach.

• VLC will happily take data on stdin on linux, so let's do that /first/

restreaming locally

must be turned into threaded component

Client player (eg. VLC, not our responsibility)

• receiving locally restreamed HTTP